‘On the Books’: Machine Learning Jim Crow
In 1950, the scholar-activist Pauli Murray published an important book titled States’ Laws on Race and Color. Sponsored by the Women’s
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Introducing the New Black Surrealisms Series
New Black Surrealisms, guest edited by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome P. Dent, Jr., extends recent interventions in Black media
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On Nostalgia: HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ and Black Religion in Three Sacred Facts
*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen. Warning: This essay
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Creating Digital Space for Black Scholarship
This year, within a week, we lost two geniuses: Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall. But at least their words circulate,
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The Archiving of Black Women’s Sexual Lives
On November 1, 2016, Ro Elori Cutno shared a picture to her Facebook profile that eventually went viral. The post
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